Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) has developed the Consolidated Notice that describes the processes, procedures, timelines, waivers, and alternative requirements that HUD has established for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grants and published in the Federal Register at 87 FR 6364 and 87 FR 31636. HUD may issue notices in the future that also make the waivers and alternative requirements in the Consolidated Notice applicable to CDBG-DR grants. Additionally, HUD intends to issue the concepts from the Consolidated Notice as a Request for Information (RFI) to get public feedback on the notice. Once that feedback is incorporated, HUD may issue the notice as a stand-alone document that can then be applied to future CDBG-DR funds.

The Consolidated Notice combines and updates requirements from several different Federal Register notices and CPD Notices that have governed CDBG-DR funds. As such, the Consolidated Notice describes each phase of the CDBG-DR grant process, including: pre-award grantee submissions; grantee steps and timelines; and action plan development, submittal, and implementation. The notice describes the standard process for CDBG-DR action plan development and outlines comprehensive and uniform requirements that may govern subsequent allocations of CDBG-DR funds to provide disaster recovery assistance in a more transparent and timely way.